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Yearly Archives: 2009

Groundwater abstraction measured by GRACE

Although a lot of people have their reserves, GRACE’s star seems on the rise.
GRACE is the name of two satellites which orbit the earth, the one following the other. The Earth’s gravity field pulls the satellites towards earth, constantly slightly changing their distance to earth. The second satellites registers the movements of the first, and [...]

FEWS course

I just did a FEWS introduction/configuration course.
FEWS stands for Flood Early Warning System. The title refers to the software’s orriginal function. By now, FEWS is applicable to a lot more issues than just flood early warning and it seems quite powerful to me.
“Delft-FEWS provides an open shell system for managing forecasting processes and/or handling time [...]

Global Overview of Saline Groundwater Occurrence and Genesis

The IGRAC recently published a draft report on saline groundwater occurrence and genesis. To accommodate this report, they expanded their site, giving an elaborate abstract of the report. The report is the result of extensive research done throughout 2008 and 2009. The report in which this culminated is only a draft, because IGRAC still wishes [...]

Groundwater & web 2.0

In January of 2009 I made the following presentation.
I recently placed it on slideshare.
 

Groundwater 2.0 on SlideShare   
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the latest literature – georeferenced!

Lately I have dug into mashups. A book on the subject brought under my attention Yahoo Pipes. An easy to use RSS manipulater for non-programmers, the web 2.0 generation, and anybody who misses building stuff with lego blocks. Introduced as an easy way to build your first mashup, I actually found it quite challenging to use. But, [...]